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B-409609,B-409609.3 1 (2014-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqjr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General r Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: SNAP, Inc. File: B-409609; B-409609.3 Date: June 20, 2014 Alfred M. Wurglitz, Esq., Nathanael D. Hartland, Esq., and Stephen P. Ramaley, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge P.C., for the protester. Barbara Walthers, Esq., and Mark A. Allen, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest allegations that the agency failed to assign various strengths to the protester's technical proposal, failed to evaluate price in making its competitive range determination, and engaged in disparate treatment of offerors, are dismissed as untimely where the record shows that the protester knew or should have known of the factual basis for these allegations more than ten days prior to raising them. 2. Protest challenging the agency's assignment of various weaknesses and significant weaknesses to the protester's technical proposal, and the agency's subsequent exclusion of the protester's proposal from the competitive range, is denied where the record shows that the evaluation and subsequent competitive range decision were reasonable. DECISION SNAP, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the decision of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to exclude its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSSCCG-13-R-00023 for flexible agile development services. SNAP argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated the firm's technical proposal, engaged in disparate treatment, failed to consider price in its competitive range determination, and improperly utilized unstated evaluation criteria. We dismiss the protest in part and deny it in part.

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